IN THE June 21, 2010, ISSUE
The Other National Debt
About that $14 trillion national debt: Get ready to tack some zeroes onto it. Taken alone, the amount of debt issued by the federal government — that $14 trillion figure ...
Also In This Issue
Articles
The Right’s Civil Wrongs
Civil rights are a problem for the American Right: a political problem, an intellectual one, a moral one. In the civil-rights debates of the 1950s and 1960s, many conservatives — ...
Use What You Got
It’s not news that Americans have a deep-seated fear of efforts by the state to register and document the citizenry. During the 1996 immigration debate, open-borders activists lobbied Congress with ...
To Educate, Innovate
Most voters have no sense of how much we actually spend on K–12 education. In 2007, Education Next and Harvard’s Program on Education Policy and Governance conducted a survey on ...
Prizewinner
Oslo, Norway – Lech Walesa sits in the Grand Hotel, here in the Norwegian capital: This is the hotel in which Nobel peace laureates traditionally stay, when they pick up their ...
Features
The Other National Debt
About that $14 trillion national debt: Get ready to tack some zeroes onto it. Taken alone, the amount of debt issued by the federal government — that $14 trillion figure ...
Talking Cures
Republicans are campaigning this year on a pledge to repeal Obamacare — and who can blame them? The Democrats are slathering another layer of bureaucracy onto the medical sector, an ...
Mend the Fed
Last month, delegates to Maine’s state Republican convention junked the party’s proposed platform in favor of one promoted by tea-party activists. While a majority of its planks are unremarkable conservative ...
Exceptional Down to the Bone
In recent months, National Review has hosted a fascinating and important discussion of American exceptionalism — the belief that the United States is qualitatively different from all other nations in ...
Books, Arts & Manners
Islamism Resurgent
The very notion of a Muslim America might seem preposterous, downright laughable, but there are people and forces identifiably working towards that end. “Islamism” is the term that describes the ...
The Happiness of Pursuit
When he was 19 years old, Arthur C. Brooks dropped out of college to play the French horn. He and his friends formed a quintet and toured the country playing ...
Will and Grace
The too-brief life of the German pastor and theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer has been the subject of much film and literary interest in recent years, and Eric Metaxas’s insightful biography of ...
Sources of the Crisis
Richard Posner is an American phenomenon, like the Grand Canyon or Silicon Valley. Now 71, he graduated summa cum laude from Yale at age 20 and magna cum laude three ...
The Culture Monster
The franchise is on its last legs. Once a transgressive cultural phenomenon, it’s aged ungracefully into a cash cow that a greedy studio just won’t let die. The one-liners are ...
Follow the Fleet
Fleet Week! For a few days, the rather distinctly unmilitary inhabitants of New York City find that in hurrying from one commercial deal to another, one fashion show to another, ...
Sections
Letters
Taking the Supply Side
Why is Kevin D. Williamson caving in to parochial calculations by accountant economists of the revenue effects of tax cuts (“Goodbye Supply-Side,” May 3)? Has he no idea ...
The Week
‐ If that unpaid advisory job is still open, we hear Arlen Specter is available.
‐ The explosion of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico April 20 ...
Presidential Daily Briefing
All Hail the Great and Powerful, Merciful and Magnificent!
Blessings on He Who Commands the Earth and the Seas and the Heavens!
1. “Deep Horizon” Oil Platform Leak
Obviously, sir, the people still ...
Poetry
He was not a brawler, or vain,
But came up in a time and class
Where a youth of exceptional beauty
Had to prove himself — man to man –
Time and again. Nearsightedness
Made ...
Judenhass in the Med
It was one of those stories people followed at airports and railway stations — not exactly 9/11 or the death of the Princess of Wales, but not a routine story ...